Shell Petroleum Development Company, a Nigerian unit of Hague-based LNG giant Shell lifted a force majeure on gas supplies to the Nigeria LNG export facility located on Bonny Island.
SPDC declared force majeure on gas supply to NLNG on 8 August, following a leak on the Eastern Gas Gathering System (EGGS-1) pipeline through which it supplies the bulk of its gas to the giant export facility.
“SPDC lifted the force majeure on gas supply to NLNG effective today (September 7, 2016) following repair of the leak at the Eastern Gas Gathering System (EGGS-1) and re-opening of the line,” an SPDC spokesman said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.
“A joint investigation team comprising community people, regulatory agencies and SPDC representatives found that the leak was from a hole drilled by unknown persons,” the spokesman said.
The Bonny Island facility currently has six trains in operation with a total capacity of some 22 mtpa of LNG.
NLNG is a joint venture compromised of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC (49%), Shell (25.6%), Total (15%), and Eni (10.4%).
LNG World News Staff